Filling-carrier receptacle for filling-replenishing looms.



Patented Oct. I4, I902.

c. F. Roman FILLING CARRIER RE CEPTA CLE FOR FILLING REPLENISHING L OOMS;

(Application filed June 6,}902.)

(No Model.)

- filling-carriers therefrom.

UNITED .S rm s PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES RiaoPEaon IJIQPEDALE, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR" 'lO DRAPER COMPANY,OF HOPEDALE, MASSACHUSETTS, 1A CORPOBAF TION OF MAINE.

'FlLLlNG-CARRIER RECEPTACLEyFClR FILLlNG-REPLEN ISHING LOOMS.

I SPEGIFIGATIltTfOrmihg part of Letters Patent 1\ To. 711,126, dated O tober 14, 1902.

' Application filed June 6,1902. smart. 110,421. mamas,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that LCHARLES'F. ROPER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hopedale, county of Worcester, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Filling- Carrier Receptacles for Filling-Replenishing Looms, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like characters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention has for its object the pro-' duction of a novel receptacle or box particularly adapted to receive the filling-carriers discharged from the lay from time to time in an automatic filling-replenishing loom.

As is well known to those skilled in the art,

the filling-carrier ejected from the lay at time of replenishment is discharged with great force and velocity, and they are customarily caught in a receptacle provided for the purpose. The attendant removes the filling-car- .riers from the receptacle from time to time,

and his hand may be seriously injured if struck by a discharged filling-carrier, particularly if it be one of the metallic-pointed copskewers frequently used.

In my present invention I have provided very simple means to protect the hand of the attendant from such injury when he inserts it into the receptacle to withdraw one or more The receptacle in which I have herein illustrated my invention is more particularly adapted for use with so-called feeler-looms, so that the discharged filling-carrier can be thrown far enough to drag out the length of filling cut by the thread-cutting means.

Figure Us a partial transverse sectional view of a portion of "a loom provided with automatic filling -replenishing mechanism with my present invention applied thereto, partly broken out; and Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the filling-carrier receptacle shown in Fig. 1. a

The lay A, Fig. 1, having a cut-away portion A beneath the discharge-opening 10 in the bottom of the shuttle-box B, the filling- ,feeder F for the filling-carriers b, and the transferrer f may be and are of well-known shuttle.

of the attendant.

drawn, the cover automatically drops back closing the opening and leaving a a construction, an ejected filling-carrier'being 5o discharged from the shuttle S through the opening 10 and cut-away part A of the lay by the fresh filling-carrier inserted in the When the filling is replenished, the lay isin dotted-line position, Fig. 1, and the receptacle provided for the purpose receives the discharged filling-carrier at such time.

p The receptacle is herein shown as an elongated upright rectangular box G, preferably made of sheet metal and having an open top, the receptacle being so placedas to conveniently receive the filling; carriers as discharged from the lay.

In order to provide for withdrawl of the filling-carriers from the box', I have provided one of its walls, as g, with an opening g, shown as located near the top of the box and of such dimensions that the attendant can readily insert his hand through the opening to reach and withdraw filling-carriers which have been dis- 7o chargedthereinto. AcovergFfortheopening is herein shown as pivoted at its upper end on the wall g' inside the box, as at g, the cover normally depending over and closing the opening g, and at such time there .is no obstacle within the box to the entrance of a dis; charged filling-carrier.

When the attendant wishes to withdraw anything from the. box, he inserts his hand through the opening g and in so doing swings the cover 9 in the direction of arrow 20, Fig. 1, the ,cover not only uncovering the opening, but alsoacting as a shield or guard for the hand, its position (see dotted lines, Fig. 1) serving to deflect an incoming filling carrier, so that it could not strike thehand I When the hand is withinto place, clear space within the box .for the passage of go a filling-carrier thereinto.

The long boxes, such as illustrated, give a long enough drop to enable the ejected filling-carrier to pull out from the shuttle-box the length of filling which has been severed v byjthe cutting'mecha'nism with which a 'feeler-loom 'is provided, thereby preventing the end from weaving into thecloth.

Having described my invention, what I therefor pivotally mounted-above said openclail'nas new, and desire to secure by Letters ing within the receptacle, the'flcover when Patent, isswung up to uncoverthe opening acting as a 5 box having an opening in its bottom for the theopening-into the receptacle.

.dischargeof a-fillin'g-carrier, a stationary re- A receptacle for automatically dis- -cepbacle having an open top adapted to. recharged filling-carriers from a 100m, consistceive filling-carriers when discharged from ing of an upright box having'an opentop'and I 1."'In =a -loom,a layprorided with a shuttleshieldfor the .hand when"'inserted through 25 v thelay, there being an opening in one. of the an opening-in one of its'walls, a nd a swinging 39 I.Q: Wflll$bfh6 receptacle to permit manual withcover mounted wi'thin the box and normally -gdrawal of filling-carriers therefrom, and adependinggto close said'opening, the cover swinging cover pi-Votally mounted withinthe when-swung up tol uncoverthe opening act'- receptacle above theopening and normally ing as ashield to protecttheh'and when inclosing it. 4 p 7 v serted through said'opening'jinto the box. 35

15' 2. In.a1oom,a la-y provided witha shuttle- 'In testimony whereof I have, s'igned; my box having an opening in'itsflbottomfor the 'name to thisrspeoification in the presence of i dischargeof a filling-carrier, an upright, statwo subscribingiwitnesses. f

'tionary reeeptaclehaving an open-top, to re- 7 t GHARLES F. ROPER.

" cei-veafilling-carrier discharged from thelay, Witnessesi 7 2o there'being an opening inone'ofv the walls of GEORGE OTIS DRAPER, 1

g thy; geeeptacl enearit s top ,an( 1ahan ingeover ERNEST W. WOOD. 

